Israeli air force strike kills 10

Associated Press

Published Tuesday, July 23, 2002

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli air force F-16 fired a missile at a house belonging to a Hamas leader in Gaza City early Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, including three children, Palestinian officials and doctors said.

Security officials said the house belonged to Sheik Salah Shehada, founder of the military wing of Hamas, known as Izzadine el-Qassam, in Gaza and the West Bank.

There is no word on the identities of the casualties or if Shehada was among them.

The explosion collapsed the building and three houses around it, residents said.